THE "OFFICIAL" February 21, 2013 Trade Deadline Thread...

Good point. Of course, many on this board will ignore that fact and blame Olshey if he isnt traded.

 

Definitely. Preserving cap space at the cost of conducting a trade to acquire talent would be a boneheaded move. We're not going to dramatically improve our roster via free agency - it'll have to be done via trades. And even if we only have $8M in cap space that will still allow us to make lop-sided trades to our advantage.

 

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine
Latest word out of Boston: Celtics making deadline-day run at player they've pursued before ... Tyreke Evans

 

Tom Penn is fucking awesome! Watching him work this trade machine on SportsCenter right now. Always loved this guys knowledge of the game.

 

Many people are unhappy regardless, so to those people I say:

[video=youtube;d-diB65scQU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU[/video]

 

I'm glad we didn't pull the trigger on Bledsoe for Crawford. The chain of events would probably have us not pick up Lillard.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

Can we just give them hickson for Bledsoe now?! Lol

 

Joe Freeman ‏@BlazerFreeman
#Blazers GM Neil Olshey told Nolan Smith Tuesday no deal was in the works. JJ Hickson isn't eager to waive Bird rights in trade. Quiet day?

 

No team will offer much for JJ Hickson. First, JJ gets to decide yes or no to the trade and won't approve if his PT goes down, thus lowering his value this summer. Second, with no bird-rights, teams don't have any advantage to re-sign Hickson and retain him long term. So, why not just sign him as a FA this summer and not waste assets.

 

Uh-Oh. See ya Nolan.

 

Been saying this all season. But still people ignored it

 

I think at this point it makes sense to hang on to Hickson anyways and then sign and trade him in the summer (if a team wants to pay him too much) or resign him as a valuable bench sub at a decent contract.

 

Chris Broussard ‏@Chris_Broussard
Portland asking for a 1st round pick for JJ Hickson and finding no takers so far.

 

DUH! Because nobody wants him!

 

To be fair it is not that no one wants him period. It is that they don't want to spend a 1st on a rental.

 

My post was about Nolan Smith.

 

Ooops! So it was.

 

Telflair is available for a 2nd rounder it sounds like. Not sure of his contract (will edit this with the details after I look it up) but you could do worse off in the backup PG department (like Ronnie Price and Nolan Smith for example!)

Salary details: Last year of his deal. Making 1,567,500 MIL. We have that in cap space right now so technically wouldn't have to send out another player (would have to cut someone though).

 

Telfair is an upgrade over Rice and Smith 10 fold. That's not really saying much though.